Posted on 03/27/2018 1:04:02 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Offutt Airbase, Nebraska (CNN)If the unthinkable happens and a nuclear exchange between the US and North Korea or Russia happens, President Donald Trump will rely on a secure underground facility at a base in the middle of the United States to carry out his orders. And four-star Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the commander of US Strategic Command, would be at the center of it all. "Our strategic responses are always ready to respond and everybody should know that," Hyten told CNN in an interview inside the highly secured 'Battle Deck' where he would oversee a nuclear response if the US is attacked or if Trump decides to launch a pre-emptive strike. "That they are ready this minute -- under the ground, under the sea, in the air, we are ready to respond, and the adversaries of the world -- including Kim Jong Un -- have to know that."
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That is not the only site they exist at. Nor where they are made at. I’ve been to the latter.
Oh, thats the command lead by that treasonous General who was outside the USA and said he would resist an illegal order from Trump to launch.
Why is that John Hyten still the General after holding up the Commander in Chief in a demeaning light?
It may be time to re-read the excellent book from decades ago by Pat Frank ‘Alas, Babylon!’ Offatt has a major part.
This is where Dubya went after leaving Florida and making a refueling stop at Barksdale AFB, LA on Sept 11, 2001
The SALT Treaty with the USSR allowed each country to put anti-ballistic systems in one place per country. The USA opted to ring the ICBM fields to have them available for retaliation against a first strike.
The USSR, who swore they would NEVER be the first to launch in a nuclear war opted to ring Moscow with ABM. Why the difference? Russia had no need to protect their missile fields as they would be emptied out in a first strike. So much for NEVER being the first to launch.
Amarillo was number ten on the list, due to the helium reserves, SAC base, and the Pantex weapons facility. Needless to say, we were well versed in Duck and Cover.
Believe me, anyone with nukes knows where Offut is. It’s been targeted for decades. I heard that at one time, it was one of the top three first-strike targets in the US, along with Washington DC and Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.
Yep. I was working that day, and stepped out into the parking lot to watch Air Force One, escorted by fighters, descend on final approach. Not another plane in the sky. It was eerie, to say the least.
Your asking me to click in CNN? Sorry no can do.
Back in 2010 and 2011, I was on one of the unsuccessful bid team for that project. As I recall we had to bid it eleven times in 13 months. I would have been one of the guys running it if we got it.
Because of the design you could tell it was going to be a big nightmare during construction. A site for an underground facility that is below the water table of one of the largest rivers in the US — what is not to love.
The complexity of various requirements was beyond stupid. Glad I didn’t have to take my team and build it. I would have done it as a real career capstone, but I probably would have died arguing out the change orders.
Since we lived in the direct flight path of Burbank and LAX I thought I would go outside on 911 night and see the skies with no planes in them
But then you could actually see the military planes circling high up over us too
At first I was like wait what
And then I realized it was the military
It was weird
Where these bases are, are not secret.
In fact, if the Russians felt like getting all up in our face, I am sure there are a bunch of closed AF bases that will host a few warheads.
This is nostalgia, from the good ole days. Except I am not crawling under a desk. I always thought that was stupid. And it would hurt my knees to get up.
If they destroy that site, all of the other weapons spread out over the world will be on them.
Thanks for posting Navy Vet! Very interesting. I live 12 miles straight west of Offutt. I will be teeing off at Tregaron tomorrow at 12:30 so I will be right across the road from you guys.
I saw one of the E-4s out flying around town the other day. Did they get the ones that got damaged in the tornado last June back online? That was an expensive mess for you guys out there.
Oh man - your ruined the misdirection!
“Mr. Kim say bomb mountain in Nebraska - I no see mountain!!”
We have a very small electrical substation in our neighborhood. After 9-11 it received some upgrades including a wall around the street side and a dual-layered fence around everything.
Trucks were running in and out daily for a year. The building is the same as 20 years ago. We figure they must have added a whole bunch of stories underground. The parking lot that use to have maybe 20 cars in it now holds 100 I bet.
All that dirt probably made for good construction fill.
Has Vice Admiral Richards, been seen lately? Is he still deputy commander of STRATCOM?
Any truth to the statement that 3 of the doomsday planes were damaged in a tornado, and Richards failed to disperse those?
I haven’t heard anything since Trump pardoned that sailor for the picture incident.
The USA opted to ring the ICBM fields to have them available for retaliation against a first strike.
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Nope...there was one ABM system that was built but never operated for the missile complex that was at Grand Forks AFB. All of the Minuteman missiles are gone and the mission closed.
The remaining 400 (out of the 1,000 once deployed) Minuteman missiles are located at Malmstrom AFB (Great Falls, MT), Minot AFB ND and F.E. Warren AFB (Cheyenne, WY).
That’s it folks...and it’s all in the public domain and unclassified.
Yep. I was working that day, and stepped out into the parking lot to watch Air Force One, escorted by fighters, descend on final approach. Not another plane in the sky. It was eerie, to say the least.
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I experienced the same. The emptiness of the sky was really weird.
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